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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure. — Gavin DeGraw
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the sensitive viewer out… — Ken Wilber
In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make,… — Unknown Author
Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is possible because again - your… — Maxwell Maltz
The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of… — John Ruskin
There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing… — Unknown Author
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it. — William Hazlitt
In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The… — Thomas Carlyle
The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed. — Henry M. Morris
Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce… — P.J. O'Rourke
Facebook's new relationship status option: "No longer able to interact with actual people" — Andy Borowitz
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication… — Heinrich Hertz
I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at… — Galileo Galilei
We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways… — Carl G. Fisher
[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience... — Erwin Schrodinger
By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and… — Therese of Lisieux
The actual well seen is ideal. — Thomas Carlyle
Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence.… — Howard Gardner

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